NAXA Electronics NPB-256 Portable AM/FM/MP3/CD Stereo Radio

Expert Review

Sporting a sleek curved aesthetic and folding handle, this boom box from Naxa gives you a lot of options. There's the AM/FM radio with rotary tuning and loads of presets to remember your favorite channels, a top-loading CD/MP3 player lets you play CD's, CDR's and MP3 discs, and an auxiliary port gives you connectivity with mobile devices.

But that's not all, there's also a USB port for jumpdrives and memory card slots to access music from your SD card. A simple interface features just a few buttons along the top let you control all of these features with ease. The blue backlit LCD display will give you song and artist information from MP3's as well as radio frequency numbers and function alerts. Four speakers, two woofers and two tweeters, deliver a smooth combination of deep bass and sharp treble with just a little bit of mid-range to round out a balanced audio palette for some of the best output on the list.Rating: 4/5